Word: summer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American racial revolt of the 1960s has in no sense been a full-scale upheaval like the French Revolution. Yet it can be said that in the relatively cool American summer of 1969, a Thermidor convalescence from the long fever of racial tumult seems to be under way. There has been no wholesale rioting in the black ghettos of the U.S. since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. By a Department of Justice count, the number of racial disturbances of all sizes has fallen off sharply in 1969 from the two previous summers (see chart, next...
There are good reasons for guarded hope. Many new elements, some constructive, some negative, explain the relative quiescence of the black ghetto this summer. Among them...
...Orleans militant group called Thugs United has won financial aid from the city's staid Chamber of Commerce for black self-help programs. Milwaukee has a "Summerfest" of rock festivals and fashion shows. In Cincinnati, Richard Bedgood's black Checkmates group organized a series of summer leisure programs in the ghetto. Says Bedgood: "Everyone was real happy. Like man, they brought jazz groups in, they brought the symphony in, we had plays, we had rock groups. Practically every night they had something going. There was just no time to riot." Leon Atchison, assistant to Detroit's able...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Nixon's urban affairs adviser, believes that possibly the high point of violence has already been reached. "I would think we have passed that," he said last week. If he is right-and events going back through this summer to the Martin Luther King riots of 1968 indicate that he might be-it is an extraordinary and unexpected evolution within the black revolution. In the worst hours of the most reckless rioting, many white Americans feared that the fire next time would strike where the white man lives and works. This ugly vision of race...
...Over the summer, Sam Brown, a former McCarthy campaign aide, has organized a "Viet Nam Moratorium Committee." The group is urging students and faculty across the country to boycott classes on October 15 and devote the day to demonstrating against the war. If the boycott is successful, it will be expanded each month-two days in November, three in December and so on. Separate antiwar demonstrations are planned for the streets of Chicago in October by the dominant wing of Students for a Democratic Society and by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam. Both could...